Launchd, execve and execvp ...

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 29, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2006, at 13:09, David M. Cole wrote:
>> At 1:54 PM -0600 10/29/06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> Wait, are you using Mac OS X, or just Darwin? I thought part of  
>>> the reason for renaming DarwinPorts to MacPorts was that we  
>>> didn't want to support plain Darwin anymore....
>>
>> yes, just plain darwin ... din't know about that restriction (you  
>> might want to put that on a web page or something ...).
>
> Oh, there are lots of things we should put on the web page or  
> something. This transition we're currently undergoing has thrown  
> everything into disarray.
>
> I believe the problem was that most of the developers did not in  
> fact have a pure Darwin box to test with, so things constantly  
> broke for Darwin,

This is true, but most ports should work with plain Darwin.

If things are broken, patches are always welcome.

> and with Macs and therefore Mac OS X gaining popularity, it was  
> felt that supporting Darwin was not very feasible. I have the  
> apache2 port installed and I do use launchctl to start and stop it,  
> and it works fine on Mac OS X. But I also unfortunately have no  
> experience with pure Darwin.

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